Linen reading list

General

Baines, Patricia. Flax and Linen. Princes Risborough, 1985.

Clarkson, Leslie. 'The Linen Industry in Early Modern Europe'. The Cambridge History of Western Textiles, vol I,  edited by David Jenkins. Cambridge, 2003.

Solar, Peter. 'The Linen Industry in the Nineteenth Century'. The Cambridge History of Western Textiles vol. II, edited by David Jenkins. Cambridge, 2003.

Herald, Jacqueline. 'Figured Linen Damasks'. 5000 Years of Textiles, edited by Jennifer Harris. London, 1993.

Books

Baines, Patricia. A Linen Legacy: Rita Beales, 1889-1987. Bath, 1989.

Bonneville, Françoise de. The Book of Fine Linen. Paris, 1994.

Brennan, Eilis. Linen, Continuity and Change: The Story of the Irish Linen Industry. Holywood, 1988.

Coons, Martha & Katherine Koob. All Sorts of Good Sufficient Cloth: Linen-making in New England 1640-1860. North Andover, MA, 1980.

Crawford, William Henry. The Irish Linen Industry. Belfast, 1987.

Durie, Alastair J. The Scottish Linen Industry in the Eighteenth Century. Edinburgh, 1979.

Evans, Nesta. The East Anglian Linen Industry: Rural industry and Local Economy, 1500-1850. Aldershot, 1985.

Fauque, Claude. Secret du Lin. Paris, 1997.

Fischer, E. Linvavarambetet i Malmo och det Skanska Linnevaveviet. Stockholm, 1959.

Hilts, Patricia. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Twills: The German Linen Tradition. Winnipeg, 1985.

Levey, Santina M. An Elizabethan Inheritance: The Hardwick Hall Textiles. London, 1998.

Mitchell, D. 'Annus Mirabilis' 1706: A Study of a Linen Damask Napkin of the Siege of Meenen. Brugge, 1985.

Montgomery, F. W. Printed Textiles, English and American Cottons and Linens 1770-1850. New York, 1970.

Paludan, C, ed. Damask og Dreiji, Daskketojets historie I Damark. Borgen, 1989.

Pauwels, A. G. Damast. Kortrijk, 1986.

Pauwels, A. G. Damast II. Kortrijk, 1996.

Prinet, Marguerite. Le Damas de Lin Historié: du XVI au XIX siècle. Berne, 1982.

Raetzer, Maren. Damast aus Großschönau: Die Produktionsstäund die Dort Gewebten Kunstwerke vom 17. Bis zum 19. Jahrhundert, 2 volumes. Hamburg, 2003.

Schorta, Regula, Linda Woolley & Cornelis A. Burgers. Leinendamaste: Produktionszentren und Sammlungen. Riggisburg, 1999.

Topelius, Ann-Sofi. Damastduktyg: Och Verksmheten vid Vadstena Fabrik 1753-1843. Stockholm, 1985.

Van Ysselsteyn, G. T. White Figurated Linen Damask: From the 15th to the beginning of the 19th century. The Hague: Van Goor Zonen, 1962.

Articles

General

Guérin, Polly. 'Cloth as Commodity: Fine Dining Linens have always Mirrored Society's Manners'. Art and Antiques, vol. 27, pt. 5, May 2004, pp.60-62.

Sutton, A. F. 'Some Aspects of the Linen Trade c.1130s to 1500, and the Part Played by the Mercers of London'. Textile History, vol. 30, pt 2, Autumn 1999, pp.155-75.

Mitchell, D. M. ' By your Leave my Masters: British Taste in Table Linen in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries'. Textile History, vol. 20, Spring 1989, pp.49-77.

Cave, O. 'Linen Cut-Work'. Embroidery, vol. 15, no. 1, Spring 1964.

'Damasks'. CIBA Review, no. 110, June 1955. 

Irish linen

Solar, Peter. 'The Irish Linen Trade, 1852-1914'. Textile History, vol. 36, no.1, May 2005, pp.46-68.

James, Kevin J. 'The Hand-Loom in Ulster's Post-Famine Linen Industry: The Limits of Mechanization in Textiles' "Factory Age"'. Textile History, vol. 35, no.2, November 2004, pp.178-191.

Solar, Peter. 'The Irish Linen Trade, 1820-1852'. Textile History, vol. 21, Spring 1990, pp.57-85.

Scottish linen

Miskell, L. & C. A. Whatley. '"Juteopolis" in the Making: Linen and the Industrial Transformation of Dundee, c.1820-1850'. Textile History, vol. 30 no.2, Autumn 1999, pp.176-98.

Turner, W. H. K. 'Flax Weaving in Scotland in the early Nineteenth Century'. Scottish Geographical Magazine, vol. 99, April 1983, pp.16-30.

Turner, W. H. K. 'The Development of Flax-Spinning Mills in Scotland 1787-1840'. Scottish Geographical Magazine, vol. 98, April 1982, pp.4-15.

Turner, W. H. K. 'The Localisation of Early Spinning Mills in the Historic Linen Region of Scotland'. Scottish Geographical Magazine, vol. 98, September 1982, pp.77-86.

Swain, Margaret. 'The Linen Supply of a Scottish Household 1777-1810: Extracts from the Accounts of Thomas Hog of Newliston'. Textile History, vol. 13, Spring 1982, pp.77-89.

English Linen

Smith, S. D. 'The Later Business Career Of William Crane, Linen Yarn Merchant Of Manchester'. Northern History vol. 42, no.1, March 2005, pp.131-149.

Sutton, Anne F. 'The Early Linen and Worsted Industry of Norfolk and the Evolution of the London Mercers' Company'. Norfolk Archaeology, vol. 40, 1989, pp.201-25.

Goodchild, John. 'Enterprise in the Barnsley Linen Industry in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries'. Textile History, vol. 13, Autumn 1982, pp.249-69.